A Time of Black Devotion

Ashland, OH: Ashland Poetry Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 55pp. Light wear to extremities, else Fine. Louisiana-born poet, whose work primarily addresses racial tensions, beginning with the poem "The White Man Pressed the Locks," in which a white man locks his car doors while driving "down the concrete vein." Also includes poems dedicated to Frantz Fanon and Martin Luther King, Jr.